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You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
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Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
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I cannot explain it but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
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I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
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We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
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Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
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We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind this privilege is mine.
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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
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We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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